Best A/L students get excellence awards

Dharma Sri ABEYRATHNE

COLOMBO: The students who obtained the best results at the GCE Advanced Level Examination in 2006, received 'The Presidential Award of Excellence' on Thursday (26), from President Mahinda Rajapaksa at a ceremony at the Temple Trees.

Madhavi Fernando of Girls High School, Kandy who achieved highest marks in Arts scheme, Manudha Herath of Royal College, Colombo in Mathematics Rasanga Abhishek of Nalanda College, Colombo in Commerce, and Harsha Dissanayake of Nalanda College, Colombo in Biology were offered scholarships by President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga distributed certificates.

Meanwhile, the President advised to his secretary to offer Rs. 25,000 per student who are successful at the examination for their further studies.

This programme was jointly organised by the Independent Television Network (ITN) and Lak Handa Radio and financial assistance were offered by the Doramadalawa Fund of ITN.

Secretary of Media Ministry W.B. Ganegala, Chairman of ITN and Lak Handa Anura Siriwardena, Principals, parents and students of many schools participated in the occasion.